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On the east coast of the yoosah. In the place where the bad drivers are.

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Re: I spent $30,000 in my first 6 Months

Just some speculation here. if you ran ALL of the flashlights in this collection at once, it'd be enough to warm a rather large room during winter. The sheer volume of lights would probably blind anybody in the room, even with just the ambient light of an innocent ceiling bounce...with the whole assortment of color temperatures, I'd dare say that the light would be similar to the brightness and whiteness of the sun. O.o

Re: I spent $30,000 in my first 6 Months

Originally Posted by dlmorgan999

It seems though - at least for the custom lights - that they are fairly easy to sell and recoup your investment. Especially if they are rare or no longer made.

When I became a true flashaholic 6 months ago I convinced myself the same. After everything else I collected in the past had no real resale value (gadgets, phones etc) it was nice to see a healthy used market on cpf. Having spent countless amounts On flashlights i have now come to the conclusion that some items are hold their value while others will drop in value from new. Some items are clearly over sold and the prices are high because a handful of collectors are willing to stimulate demand. Once the collectors have their collection satisfied it will become more difficult to estimate value as price will very much depend on what the next person is willing to pay for the 'holy grail'. I have noticed recently several high end lights on CPF custom / titanium not moving and been withdrawn eventually. I hope this is just a temporary blip.

Re: I spent $30,000 in my first 6 Months

Your wife must be very understanding of your love of flashlights,you also must be a pretty wealthy collector.None of them things are any of our business though & all the best to you on your search for your grail light.
Your collection is totally jaw dropping,the fact you amassed it in the space of 6 months is just unbelievable.If i had that amount of disposable income,i think i'd travel to everywhere they were made & clock some air
miles seeing our world.Anyways this thread is not about me fantasizing it's about a fellow CPF member with a collection to die for & well done to him for that.

Re: I spent $30,000 in my first 6 Months

First, are you guys interested in adopting a 52 year old, fat man? If so, I'm in.

Second, is your wife a good cook (this part is important) and since I hate to appear
sexist, I'd like to say that it really doesn't matter who does the cooking, as long as
the food is good.

Third, do you allow pets? I have a few rescue dogs that are the only thing that matter
to me and I'd like to bring them along please.

Just like you, I like flashlights a lot and I LOVE knives. I even design knives and if I find
a custom knife maker that's interested in making some of my designs one day, I'll have
some of the made.

Anyway, in 96 I think it was, I went to a knife show in Orlando to talk to one of the custom
knife makers about one of my designs and while walking around, drooling (and thankfully
I was pretty much broke at the time), they told me a story about a guy visiting one of the
shows one year with (I guess) two bodyguards.
He was walking around and pointing out the knives he wanted, the second guy was putting a sticker
on them and the third gay was paying for them.

Hell, if I could afford it, I'd do the same thing.

As for you having an understanding wife...I have no idea if she works or not but IF she doesn't and
you're the one making the money, I don't see why that would matter
That said, MOMMY, I LOVE YOU (again, can she cook?)

Finally, I have a case that's better than the Pelican cases that would be great for your stuff
(it's BIG) so PM me if you're interested or to discuss the conditions of my adoption..

Again, awesome stuff and congrats.
I would really like to see a pic of the knives please.

Re: I spent $30,000 in my first 6 Months

I'm not sure I've spent $30,000 total since I started collecting in 2008 or so. Definitely spent several thousand, but not $30k.

Of course, the fact that I started collecting flashlights at all is an anomaly in my life; normally I hate having more than one tool for each possible task, because I don't like having to choose between them. Not that there's much choosing happening nowadays -- I carry the same 3 lights every day now, and the others rarely get used because I know I'll never be able to replace them if they get lost, stolen, or destroyed.

Fortunately I skipped pretty much straight to buying titanium flashlights. That cut down on my expenses a lot, because I didn't throw money at a bunch of cheaper lights first. Probably less than $500 total to-date on aluminum lights.